Leadership Journey: From Software Developer to Leader

You’ve spent years working on your technical skills and can write code with the best of them. Then, one day, a leadership position opens up on your team, and you start thinking about it. Should I or shouldn’t I? What if I hate it? What if I love it? What if I'm not that good at it? In this interactive session, we’ll explore “why leadership,” answer some hard questions, and talk about one developer’s path from writing code to leading people.

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1. MICHAEL EATON, DESERT CODE CAMP 2017 LEADERSHIP JOURNEY FROM SOFTWARE DEVELOPER TO LEADER

3. QL TERMS ▸ Department = Team, Group ▸ Manager, boss = Leader ▸ Borrowers, Debtors, Engineers = Clients ▸ Workers / employees / cogs = Team Members ▸ ISMs = The ideas we live by at Quicken Loans and at every one of our family of companies. They have a lot more to do with who we are than what we do.
4. LEADER(SHIP)
5. A LEADER IS A COACH, A MENTOR, AND A TEACHER. Kyle Lamb
6. MY PATH
7. EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE A CLEAR IDEA OF HOW OTHER PEOPLE SHOULD LEAD THEIR LIVES, BUT NONE ABOUT HIS OR HER OWN. Paulo Coelho
8. WHY?
9. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
10. NO, REALLY? WHY?
11. RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT WE TEND TO REGRET WHAT WE HAVEN’T DONE MUCH MORE THAN WHAT WE HAVE DONE – EVEN IF WE SCREWED UP IN DOING IT. Ben Hunt-Davis
12. WHY NOT?
13. LEADERSHIP IS THE MORE DIFFICULT PATH TO TAKE. LEADERSHIP IS HARD. DOING THE RIGHT THING USUALLY IS. Kyle Lamb
14. ACTION: 
 KNOW YOUR WHY
15. SERVANT LEADERSHIP
16. IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU. IT’S ABOUT THEM. Clint Eastwood
17. FIRST AND FOREMOST, AS A LEADER YOUR #1 JOB IS TO PROTECT YOUR PEOPLE. Jim Holmes
18. MY JOB WAS TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE AROUND ME EITHER WAS MORE TALENTED OR WORKED HARD TO BE SO. Ryan Zinke
19. ACTION: LOSE YOUR EGO
20. LEADERSHIP != …
21. BEING AN EFFECTIVE LEADER DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO BE THE SMARTEST GUY IN THE ROOM OR ALWAYS HAVE THE BEST IDEA. Brandon Webb
22. REMOTE LEADERSHIP
23. ACTION: WORK ON YOUR EQ
24. CHALLENGES
25. PEOPLE ARE HARD.
26. PEOPLE ARE HARD. Every leader, ever.
30. THE ONLY MAN WHO NEVER MAKES A MISTAKE IS THE MAN WHO NEVER DOES ANYTHING. Theodore Roosevelt
31. A TEAM, LIKE MEN, MUST BE BROUGHT TO ITS KNEES BEFORE IT CAN RISE AGAIN. Vince Lombardi
32. OTHER CHALLENGES
33. ACTION: WORK ON YOUR EQ
34. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
35. LEADERSHIP AND LEARNING ARE INDISPENSABLE TO EACH OTHER. John F. Kennedy
36. YOU CAN’T LEARN IF YOU THINK YOU ALREADY KNOW. Ryan Holiday
37. ACTION: FIND A MENTOR
38. THERE ARE NO BAD TEAMS, ONLY BAD LEADERS. Jocko Wilink
39. ACTION PLAN
40. ACTION PLAN ▸ Know your why
41. ACTION PLAN ▸ Know your why ▸ Work on your EQ
42. ACTION PLAN ▸ Know your why ▸ Work on your EQ ▸ Lose your ego
43. ACTION PLAN ▸ Know your why ▸ Work on your EQ ▸ Lose your ego ▸ Know your why
44. ACTION PLAN ▸ Know your why ▸ Work on your EQ ▸ Lose your ego ▸ Know your why ▸ Find a mentor
45. RESOURCES ▸ Leadership Journey, Jim Holmes ▸ Extreme Ownership, Jocko Wilink / Leif Babin ▸ Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Travis Bradberry / Jean Greaves ▸ Leadership in the Shadows, Kyle Lamb
46. RESOURCES ▸ Will It Make the Boat Go Faster?, Ben Hunt-Davis ▸ Red Circle, Brandon Webb ▸ How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie ▸ Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday ▸ Strengths Based Leadership, Tom Path
47. HTTPS://ABOUT.ME/MJEATON